Places to visit: Hotel's Roller-Coaster in Cebu

My sister is nagging me to bring her and my mom to this attraction in Cebu City:

Call in the travel agency. My sister is not going to stop nagging me. She got everything planned already... err.

Philippine Drupal Code Sprint @ the Kubo: A Huge Success!

Congratulations to the Drupal Code Sprint held at a "Kubo" in Manila!

It is great pleasure meeting Filipinos with the same passion for Drupal. And you know what? We ended helping out two non-profit orgs. in the same day too!

Websites were created for Kodao Productions and Philippine Peasant Movement, all in one day.

My deepest & sincerest thanks to J Francisco who came all the way from Hawaii just to initiate, organize and share this event with us. Mahalo!

To Rick and DL of CPU, it's really nice working with you again ;) Thanks for bringing the kubo back for this special activity.

Salamat din sa mga bagong kaibigan (Thank you to our new friends).

For more info, visit http://groups.drupal.org/philippines

Drupal at the Philippine Open Source Summit in Cebu

Just so you know, I never intended to hurt any minuscule feelings at Room 102 at Cebu International Convention Center. What supposed to be a "tech-talk" turned out being an early-morning show for some of the audience. (Thanks for the warm compliments. I'm so happy that you liked it).

Moving forward with my blog... I never expected to get such wild audience participation in my entire life! From government officials, non-profit orgs, to private-owned companies.

It feels so overwhelming to know that many were convinced with the power of Drupal as a social publishing platform and as a web framework.


Here are the topics discussed (because I presented in impromptu):

• What Drupal is -- History and origin of the name
• Who uses Drupal -- Piclens presentation of top websites created in Drupal
• Where can we find Drupal users/developers around the world -- (gmap representation)
• Common Job Descriptions in the Drupal community
• What you need to setup a Drupal site under 3 minutes -- demo of Uniform Server + Drupal 6
  
• The Philippine Drupal Group

Special thanks to Keiran Lal (aka Amazon) of Acquia and Jimmy Berry (aka boombatower) for the marketing collateral and presentation templates respectively. Also, I give my acknowledgement to Steven Peck (sepeck) and Jacob Redding (jredding) for the inspiration and encouragement.

I take this a sign for more Drupal events to come (here in the Philippines of course)!